Score, age and restart ?

[sheap]

Hello, I do not fully understand everything :
I went back to the first level to not age, but since i take shortcut, i do not score a lot this time, therefore, the next time i will load the Club I ll be 20 instead of 24 on my previous attempt, but i won't have any upgrade related to score since i took the shortcut am i right ?

Do not want to gate my best runs because i took shortcut and now do not have any red skills.

TLDR, ok the game save the best age so i can progress in a non linear way, ok it keeps skills when unlocked, but what about skill related to score (red one) ? Will it keep my best score and mix it with my best age ?

[JAG]

Originally posted by sheap:

went back to the first level to not age, but since i take shortcut, i do not score a lot this time, therefore, the next time i will load the Club I'll be 20 instead of 24 on my previous attempt, but i won't have any upgrade related to score since i took the shortcut am i right?

Correct. The shrine bonuses are taken from your most recent completion of the previous hideout, regardless of age (i.e. even if you finished it at a higher age than previously).

This also means that you can do at least two runs per hideout to really min-max things. The first run is to just get through the hideout deathless, by any means necessary. The second run is for the most optimal (that's up to you) shrine bonuses - no matter how many times you die, they will carry over into the next hideout. You can just click "restart" at the next hideout, and you'll start it at the youngest age but with the newest shrines.